FISHING REPORTS (cont.)

along the moss beds. Driftfishing the falling water from the boat has been good. Pheasant tails, guide’s choice hare’s ears and midges have been producing. Try fishing a slump-buster or a conehead woolly bugger.

Lowell Myers of Sore Lip’em All Guide Service (501-230-0730) said, “We continue to see an afternoon and early evening generation pattern from the Greers Ferry Dam of 4-6 hours on weekdays with less generation on weekends on the Little Red River. This pattern provides good wading opportunities on the upper river in the mornings and down on the lower river in the afternoons. During hot temperatures, try to limit the time a trout is out of the water to reduce potential stress. We suggest small pheasant tails, hare’s ears, frenchies and midges for fly fishing.

For Trout Magnet fishing, use hot pink colored bodies on chartreuse or gold jig heads.

Fish ’N Stuff (501-834-5733) in Sherwood said the Corps of Engineers is running water late in the evenings and water is clear. Trout are good on pink and white Trout Magnets and No. 5 Rapala Countdowns

— Tommy Cauley of Fishfinder Guide Service (501-940-1318) said, The water level is 3.51 feet below normal pool. The water temperature is hot, but fish have to eat.

Crappie are good day or night all over the lake and rivers at various depths.

Some are shallow, some are 50 feet deep.

Try jigs, minnows and live bait. Catfish are good as well day or night on jugs and trotlines with many different baits. Black bass are good on topwater lures in the morning or something dragged on the bottom during the heat of the day.

Walleye have no report.

Bream are chewing and guarding fry. They are biting on crawlers, crickets and small moving baits from shallow water and out to 25 feet deep. Hybrid and white bass are 25-60 feet deep chewing at will all over the lake on in-line spinners, swim baits, spoons and live bait.

Fish ’N Stuff (501-834-5733) in Sherwood checked out Greers Ferry Lake again and found crappie biting well in 35-45 feet of water on ?-ounce jigs in white-and-chartreuse or monkey milk colors.

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— Harris Brake Lake Resort (501-889-2745) said Tuesday afternoon that the water is normal level, but slightly stained. Bream are good on redworms and crickets. No reports on anything else.

• Lake Overcup — Johnny “Catfish” Banks at Overcup Bait Shop and R.V. Park (501-354-9007) off Arkansas Highway 9 said the water is about one and a half feet low; clarity is good. Surface temperature is around 90 degrees.

Bass are biting well on crankbaits and plastic worms. Crappie are still being caught in 12 to 14 feet of water using jigs tipped with minnows.

Catfish are doing good at night on limb lines and jugs baited with nightcrawlers and large minnows. Bream are slow, but they should pick up on the next full moon. Johnny says, “Come see us for all of your fishing needs, we have perch again.”

• Brewer Lake — David Hall at Dad’s Bait Shop (501-289-2210) says the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are good on redworms and crickets around brushpiles. Crappie are good. Anglers are still finding them by spider-rigging chartreuse/white jigs and minnows in the channel. Black bass are good in deep cover; try slow-rolling a white spinnerbait. Catfish are good on goldfish and black salties.

Dad’s is a 24/7 self-serve bait shop. Stop by on your next fishing trip in the area.

• Lake Maumelle — Fish ’N Stuff (501-834-5733) reports that bass are good in 10-15 feet of water on drop shot rigs and Carolina rigs.